Reaction Paper #1 After reading “Queer Customs” and “The Not So Lonely Crowd”‚ I can honestly say I was a little more enamored with the “Queer Customs” section more than I was with the “The Not So Lonely Crowd” section. While I found “The Not So Lonely Crowd” section to be interesting especially with the Ohio State example as I love sports‚ I just found the “Queer Customs” section to be a lot more interesting for two specific examples that were brought up in the chapter. One was very intriguing
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In Western society‚ queer is viewed as lesser identity compared to other traditional identities. The white‚ male‚ middle class type dominates queer culture in Western societies. Like the gay community in Western culture‚ Western politics is also constricted by societal ideals about queer as an identity. In the same manner‚ marriage in Western culture is confined by traditional Western ideals that does not include the queer community. Despite classic definitions of identity by means of biological
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Queer theology Definition Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal‚ the legitimate‚ the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence. ’Queer’ then‚ demarcates not a positivity but a positionality vis-à-vis the normative A "pro-feminist gay theology" was proposed by J. M. Clark and G. McNeil in 1992‚ and a "queer theology" by Robert Goss in Jesus acted up: A gay and lesbian manifesto ( Explain two of the main
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Assignment 2: Queer Theory After initially making what I ’m sure is a common misconception nowadays‚ researching the Queer Theory has brought me "up to speed" so to speak‚ on what this new-aged‚ misunderstood set of beliefs actually means. To begin‚ the Queer Theory is‚ "a set of ideas based around the idea that identities are not fixed and do not determine who we are" (Butler 1990). Basically‚ this definition can be broken down into several parts. Not only does the Queer Theory
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Queer advertising ‘Commodity lesbianism’ (Danae Clark‚ 1991) Dual market strategy – packaging gender ambiguity but also erasing gay/ straight differences. Personal/political identities reduced to consumer choices (like ‘commodity feminism’). Lesbians are thus caught between the need to establish an identity and the need to be free of limits on identity Development of queer advertising: 1980s: advertisers recognize value of the ‘pink dollar’ Advertising gradually becomes more direct/
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Nancy D. Polikoff looks at the fundamental desire of queer women to have children. With that‚ a queer couple or individual women can have children through various forms such as adoption. According to Polikoff‚ queer women are not immune to a culture of obligatory motherhood. She goes on to state that “we are girls before we were aware lesbians‚ and we were raised by families that expected us to be mothers. We read the same books and saw the same movies as our heterosexual sisters. And today we live
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There should be a warning before purchasing Queer as Folk. Warning: What you are about to watch is extremely explicit or Warning: Naked bodies are guaranteed to be shown ever 3 minutes. Many gay advocates hate the series because they believe its obsession with sex overshadows other aspects of the gay community. Think about it though. Certain heterosexual television shows like Sex and The City are all about sex and sexuality‚ and it is accepted because ultimately the majority of the relationships
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Anthropology 1120 Assignment 1: Critical Reading Exercise Value: 10% of final grade DUE DATE: Section A: MONDAY OCTOBER 21 in your tutorial Section B: WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23 in your tutorial You must also upload your assignment to Turnitin via the course Moodle website by the beginning of the lecture on the due date. (more instructions will be provided in tutorials) How does it work? You must write a 3-4 page critical summary of 1 (one) of the following required reading articles from
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Commissioner. “Assistant Commissioner” means the Assistant Commissioner‚ Office of Field Operations‚ United States Customs Service‚ Washington‚ DC. Broker. “Broker” means a customs broker. Corporate compliance activity. “Corporate compliance activity” means activity performed by a business entity to ensure that documents for a related business entity or entities are prepared and filed with Customs using “reasonable care”‚ but such activity does not extend to the actual preparation or filing of the documents
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What is Anthropology and Why is Evolution a part of this class? ! Anthropology‚ in a whole‚ is the study of humans. It is the study of mankind itself and where we have evolved from as a species. Anthropology teaches how Evolution has always been apart of us as humans or as a species. Evolution needs to be taught in the classroom because evolution shows how and who we have evolved from over time. Without evolution and without genetic mutation‚ we may still have a tail where our tail bone is. We
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